How to Upload Photos with Premium Membership

[JimFox]

For Premium Members it's easy since you have Upload capability.

1. When creating or editing a post, below the message box you will see a Button "Upload a File", click that.

A Browsing window will come up and you can navigate to the Photo on your computer.

You will then see the Photo uploading, when it's finished, you will see it's a Thumbnail below the message.

2. Next to the Thumbnail you will see a small Button "Full Image". Click that and it will insert the full sized photo into your post.

That's it! Easy just 2 steps.



Note that if you forget to click "Full Image" the photo will still be inserted into your Post, it's just it will be inserted as a Thumbnail instead of Full sized.

Also Note, that the photo will be inserted at the point of where the Cursor is in the Message.

Normally you would want to type your message, then press Enter twice to get the Cursor a bit below the text you typed. If for some reason the photo is too close or you uploaded multiple photos and you wanted text in between them, it's easy to just click into the message box next to the photo and then press Enter to then space out the photos. Once you have tried it a time or two, it's easy to get the hang of it.

 

[lightsgood]

Jim, can you share the best export settings for uploading an image?

 

[JimFox]

Jim, can you share the best export settings for uploading an image?

Good Question Ryan.

For a little background info, I always make 2 versions of the photos I process, a Print version and a Web version. Some people will do separate processing between the 2 versions, I don't. My web version will look just like my print version, except it's smaller.

Of course for the Print version will have already converted the color Profile of the image to sRGB. That's the color standard for the web, and also for most printers.

This is in Photoshop, though I assume it can be done in LightRoom also.

I will then do a 2 step downsizing because for me, too much detail gets lost if you downsize that much in one step.

Click one
1. Change the Image DPI from 300 to 72.
2. Change the Resampling (same dialog box) from the default if your Camera is 36MP or higher.
I change it to Bicubic (Best for smooth gradients)
3. Then click OK

Click on the Image menu and choose Image Size
5. Change the widest dimension in the Pixel box to 800 or 1200.
I prefer to still do my Web files at 800px wide, but other now prefer 1200.
If you choose 1200, you will find that after downsizing to 72dpi in the first step, your dimensions could already be at 1200. If so, don't do anything more.
6. If you have chosen to downsize it to 800px wide like I do, again change the Resampling to Bicubic(Best for smooth gradients).
7. Click OK

Now finally, you will need to add a bit more sharpening as the image will have softened slightly by downsizing.

Click on the Filter menu, Choose Sharpen, and then choose Unsharp Mask (my favorite).
In Unsharp, you want to just slightly sharpen the image, in most cases a setting of between 20 to 28 is just fine.

Now save your Photo with a filename that lets you know it's your web version and you are done.

You could use the Save for Web option on the File menu, but I prefer to have complete control over my downsizing.


Jim

 

[lightsgood]

Good Question Ryan.

For a little background info, I always make 2 versions of the photos I process, a Print version and a Web version. Some people will do separate processing between the 2 versions, I don't. My web version will look just like my print version, except it's smaller.

Of course for the Print version will have already converted the color Profile of the image to sRGB. That's the color standard for the web, and also for most printers.

This is in Photoshop, though I assume it can be done in LightRoom also.

I will then do a 2 step downsizing because for me, too much detail gets lost if you downsize that much in one step.

Click one
1. Change the Image DPI from 300 to 72.
2. Change the Resampling (same dialog box) from the default if your Camera is 36MP or higher.
I change it to Bicubic (Best for smooth gradients)
3. Then click OK

Click on the Image menu and choose Image Size
5. Change the widest dimension in the Pixel box to 800 or 1200.
I prefer to still do my Web files at 800px wide, but other now prefer 1200.
If you choose 1200, you will find that after downsizing to 72dpi in the first step, your dimensions could already be at 1200. If so, don't do anything more.
6. If you have chosen to downsize it to 800px wide like I do, again change the Resampling to Bicubic(Best for smooth gradients).
7. Click OK

Now finally, you will need to add a bit more sharpening as the image will have softened slightly by downsizing.

Click on the Filter menu, Choose Sharpen, and then choose Unsharp Mask (my favorite).
In Unsharp, you want to just slightly sharpen the image, in most cases a setting of between 20 to 28 is just fine.

Now save your Photo with a filename that lets you know it's your web version and you are done.

You could use the Save for Web option on the File menu, but I prefer to have complete control over my downsizing.


Jim

Thank you very much Jim! I know we all want our images to look as good as possible when we post and this will help me a bunch. Yet another advantage of being a member of FocalWorld.